Saturday Night I decided to make the almost 70 mile trip down to the Warren County Speedway presented by TruBank for Kids Ride Night presented by Hawkeye Auto Salvage and Southtown Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram. I brought the camera along to take pictures since the normal photographer was out of town for the weekend, I felt like it needed to be covered.
A total of eighty-nine cars checked in for race night number eight, well the sixth night that has been able to get at the Warren County Speedway. Following Hot Laps, kids of all ages was able to ride with their favorite racers around the track for three laps before the cars headed off to the pit area for heat race action. Racing action wrapped up at 10:40p.
The racing action was heated all night along, you would have thought there was a full moon but that was earlier in the week. Racing surface was the best I have seen, Promoter Brandan Long and crew have worked hard to make it better week after week. The track was fast and dry slick last night if you had the right setup and avoided the incidents early.
With the normal track photographer Josh Bowlin out of town, I was invited to come and take pictures for the night and took 831 pictures. All pictures are posted on the Trackside Report by Foxman Facebook Page in a photo album called Warren County Kids Ride Night 7-8-23.
First feature of the night was the 20 lap Micro Sprints feature event. "The Bullet" Brantley Tjaden out wrestled Derrike Clark the race lead early. Tjaden look smooth out front and despite Travis Rewerts trying to chase him down, it looked as Tjaden was going to take the win. The caution came out though on lap 12 when Chuck Alexander broke and hit the wall under the flag stand in turn one. Rewerts will get a great restart and steal the lead away from Tjaden. Rewerts went on to take the feature win ahead of Tjaden, eighth place starter Jackson Gray, Luke Lane and Joe Dent.
Chris and Shelbie Mitchell jumped out to the race lead in the TruBank Cruisers 16 lap feature event and only one caution slowed them down. That caution was on lap eight when Will and Travis Shivers spun in turn two. Mitchell's went on to take their fifth feature win at Warren County this season. Will Aldridge and James Tarter was second, Jason and Clay Collins was third, Rob and Kirsten Niblo was fourth and Daniel and Robert Jones was fifth.
Up next was the Williams Machine Shop Open Figure 8 sixteen lap feature. Dylan McKasson out dueled David Burnell on the start to take the lead. Burnell tried to apply pressure to Dylan McKasson but could not get by as McKasson took the win. Burnell came home second, Casey McKasson ran third, Aubrey McKasson was fourth and Colton Wicker in fifth.
Brock Bush led from start to finish in the Bussanmas Heating & Cooling 16 lap Stock Figure 8 feature event. This feature went caution free. Joe Grubbs got by J Milton Tarter Jr late to finish second putting Tarter in third. Seth Parker an David Blair was fourth and fifth.
Travis Shivers grabbed the lead early in Phillips' Floors Truck 16 lap feature event. Shivers was only slowed when the caution came out on lap six when Matt Breeden got into the front stretch wall. Shivers able to get a great restart and pulled away to take the win. Robby Dittmer, Joe Graves, Cole Edgington and Clay Collins rounded out the top five.
Before a single lap was completed in the Hawkeye Auto Salvage Hobby Stocks 16 lap feature event, the caution came out twice. First one was because several cars got together in turn one. Then on the restart when Jason Collins and Taylor Wood got together in turn three. This forced speedway officials to make it a single file restart despite no laps in the books, Leonard Loftus was able to a great restart and fend off John Alexander. The caution came out one more time on lap five for Mike Eddinger coming to a stop top side of turn three. Loftus went on take the feature win, his third at Warren County. Alexander came home second, Garrett Croy was third, Travis Fenton was fourth and sixteenth place starter Preston Bright in fifth.
Katelynn Watts has been dominating the DeYarman Ford Junior Wheel Drive class this season at Warren County, Saturday night was no different as she would go on to claim her sixth win in Indianola. The red flag slowed the event though on lap two when Colton Howe drove it deep in turn three making contact with Joe Tarter forcing Tarter to flip over. Tarter climbed from the car okay, Howe brought out the caution on the restart when he slowed in turn two. Watts won the shorten down from 12 laps to eight lap feature event. Gabriel Hoover in second, Wyatt Routh in third and Howe in fourth.
Final feature of the night was the Front Wheel Drive, Tyler Haring led the first six laps before Terry Bickford was able to take the top spot away. Bickford looked to be going on to take the easy feature win but the caution came out with two laps to go when Gabe Gavin breaks and losing a wheel going into turn three. Bickford held on to gather the win ahead of Haring, Colbin Funke, twelfth place starter Matthew Howard and Dennis Hoover.
I want to thank Brandan Long for letting me come down and take pictures also thanks to Josh Bowlin from Bowlin Photography for letting me take your place while you were out of down.
Next race at the Warren County Speedway presented by TruBank is the Warren County Fair Races on Wednesday July 26th. Pits Open at 4p, Grandstands Open at 6p, Hot Laps at 6:30p, Racing at 7p.
Then two more scheduled races in August, Saturday August 5th and August 26th. Those nights the Pits Open at 4p, Grandstands at 5:15p, Hot Laps at 5:30p, Racing at 6p. Rain Date of September 9th if needed.
For more in information about the Warren County Speedway check out warrencountyspeedway.com or like and follow the Facebook Page Warren County Speedway.
Kids Ride Night
Saturday July 8th, 2023
MICRO SPRINTS
presented by
presented by TruBank
A Feature (16 Laps): 1. 15 Chris Mitchell / Shelbie Mitchell (Osceola); 2. 2A Will Aldridge / James Tarter (Des Moines); 3. 75 Jason Collins / Clay Collins (Pleasantville); 4. N01 Rob Niblo / Jeriray Croy (Des Moines); 5. 28 Daniel Jones / Robert Jones (Indianola); 6. 17Z Autumn Van Wyk / Cameron Van Wyk (Reasnor); 7. 03 Dylan McKasson / Braden McKasson (Indianola); 8. 2W Will Shivers / Travis Shivers (Indianola); DNS 25P Clayton Gibson / Co-Driver (Milo).
Heat 2 : 1. Collins / Collins; 2. Shivers / Shivers; 3. McKasson / McKasson; 4. Niblo / Croy; 5. Jones / Jones.
presented by Williams Machine Shop
A Feature (16 Laps): 1. 03 Dylan McKasson (Indianola); 2. 3 David Burnell (Altoona); 3. 82B Casey McKasson (Indianola); 4. 95 Aubrey McKasson (Indianola); 5. 45W Colton Wicker (Des Moines); 6. 25 JR Tarter (Des Moines).
presented by Bussanmas Heating & Cooling
presented by Phillips' Floors
A Feature (16 Laps): 1. 51 Travis Shivers (Indianola); 2. 76 Robby Dittmer (Indianola); 3. 00J Joe Graves (Dallas); 4. 21 Cole Edgington (Indianola); 5. 11 Clay Collins (Pleasantville); 6. 3 Cole Becker (Milo); 7. 99 Alex Catron (Indianola); 8. 1 Matt Breeden (Indianola).
Heat 2 : 1. Becker; 2. Catron; 3. Graves; 4. Collins.
presented by Hawkeye Auto Salvage
A Feature (16 Laps): 1. 2L Leonard Loftus (Des Moines); 2. 31A John Alexander (Carlisle); 3. 70X Garrett Croy (Norwalk); 4. 10F Travis Fenton (Des Moines); 5. 13B Preston Bright (Indianola); 6. 74 Taylor Wood (Indianola); 7. 57 Kylea Ren (Indianola); 8. 88G Andrew Gilbert Sr (Des Moines); 9. 94 Jason Collins (Pleasantville); 10. 93C Austen Coenen (Oskaloosa); 11. 00N Noah Graves (Dallas); 12. 00B Braelynn Long (Norwalk); 13. 005 Ryan Lippert (Melcher); 14. 32E Mike Eddinger (Des Moines); 15. 11T Ty Tish (Brooklyn); 16. 10 Trevoer Flesher (Lacona); 17. 12J Kenny Johnson (Carlisle); 18. 90 Jake Coughennower (Indianola); DNS 27C Cory Adams (Des Moines).
Heat 2 : 1. Croy; 2. Coughennower; 3. Long; 4. Tish; 5. Eddinger; 6. Adams.
presented by DeYarman Ford
A Feature (8 Laps): 1. 2K Katelynn Watts (Oskaloosa); 2. 511 Gabriel Hoover (Indianola); 3. 33W Wyatt Routh (Norwalk); 4. 5H Colton Howe (Lacona); 5. 5T Joe Tarter (Norwalk); DNS 8V Emberli Van Clark (Indianola).
presented by
A Feature (16 Laps): 1. 63B Terry Bickford (Shannon City); 2. 5H Tyler Haring (Oskaloosa); 3. 41 Colbin Funke (Menlo); 4. 56K Matthew Howard (Altoona); 5. 77 Dennis Hoover (Indianola); 6. 72 Daniel Clayton (Fontanelle); 7. X47 Jeremy Williams (Oskaloosa); 8. 88S Logan Stevens (Greenfield); 9. 99 Justin Best (Prescott); 10. 21 Corwyn Whisler (Des Moines); 11. 47 Michael Gardner III (Des Moines); 12. 93C Maddison Coenen (Oskaloosa); 13. 43V Jody Kingery (Knoxville); 14. 69 Randy Degoey (Knoxville); 15. 2J Travis Johnston (Greenfield); 16. 44 Angela Gardner (Des Moines); 17. 46 Michael Gardner (Des Moines); 18. 33 Gabe Gavin (Indianola); 19. C1 RL Jones (Des Moines); 20. 7V Alex Van Clark (Indianola).
Heat 2 : 1. Whisler; 2. Funke; 3. Kingery; 4. Degoey; 5. Gavin; 6. Sonnenburg; 7. Howe; 8. Irish; DNS Brown.
